Sophie Kovel

Klara Lidén’s primary mode is the disruption and detournement of urban space. The artist’s recent video works follow in the wake of a series of experiments at this gallery. In 2008, Lidén transformed Reena Spaulings into a pigeon coop. Four years later, she filled it with a forest of discarded Christmas trees. With this exhibition, Lidén upholds her fervent disregard for rules.

Using Massive Attack’s 1991 music video for “Unfinished Sympathy” as a point of departure (where vocalist Shara Nelson walks Los Angeles’s Pico Boulevard while singing), Grounding (all works 2018) captures Lidén as she

Cannabis is in the air, from an October issue of Bloomberg Businessweek (with a cover that reads “Pot of Gold? ELEVATE YOUR PORTFOLIO!”) to Canada’s recent legalization of the substance. Chrysanne Stathacos’s ivy and marijuana paintings, made in 1990 and now on view here, champion the healing properties of the plant avant la lettre, anticipating today’s global decriminalization and legalization movement.

Exhibited for the first time, the artist’s canvases bring to mind the work of Joan Mitchell and Pat Steir with their verticality and abstract botanical forms. Stathacos uses a range of

For Steve Locke, the grid—that modernist symbol of order and reason—exemplifies a vastly different kind of modernity: antiblack violence. At first sight innocuous, Locke’s sensitive graphite portraits, arranged into grids, depict white murderers of black people. The series “#Killers,” 2017–18, is the culmination of several months of research in which Locke catalogues and condemns an infamous mob across sixty-one drawings. An overwhelming amount of negative space consumes these images, bringing the whiteness of the killers to the fore. Among them are George Zimmerman, based on a selfie he took

Nonaka-Hill’s second exhibition features work by the contemporary Japanese sculptor Kazuo Kadonaga. Born in 1946 to a family of foresters, Kadonaga chose to become an artist. This is not to say that he abandoned his family’s craft. Quite the opposite: Cedar trees are central to Kadonaga’s artistic practice, which focuses on the elemental properties of wood, bamboo, paper, and glass.

Kadonaga first gained recognition for his cedar sculptures, produced in the 1970s and early 1980s, which are displayed throughout the gallery. Wood No. 5-CI, 1984, is a sliced log constituted by approximately eight

The Swiss duo Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs began their first major artistic collaboration with the series “The Great Unreal,” 2005–09, a photographic account of a road trip through the US. Investigating the limitations of documentary photography, the pair frequently manipulated the natural landscape, introducing self-made constructions. “Continental Drift,” 2013–16, acts as its counterpoint; though similarly invested in the fine boundary between documentary and fiction, the travelogue charts their travels east—to Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan, among other places. These